Category: Reading
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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books on My Summer TBR List
This week’s prompt really forced me to stop and think about what books I’d like to read over the next few months. I always have a mental list on the go, but it shifts all the time and I tend to forget what I resolved to read in my mind after a few days. Writing…
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Five Ways to Break Out of a Reading Slump
It seems that I stumble into reading ennui at least four or five times a year. I hate feeling disconnected from books and stories, but I’ve learned to accept these occasional lapses. Here are some ways that I (and other readers I know) get through the slumps: 1. Don’t Panic. – We all go through…
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What I’ve Learned From Starting My Own Book Group
In March 2013 I held the first meeting of my book discussion group. I’ve enjoyed the monthly meetings so much over the past year that I encourage everyone to either join a group or start your own. Here are some things I’ve learned from starting my own: 1. It’s good to have a mix of…
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A Slightly New Direction
As you know I’ve struggled to keep Gudrun’s Tights going over the past year. And I’m struggling now. I love blogging and I love the friendships I’ve made through blogging, but I am feeling completely uninspired and cold about it all right now. Sometimes I think that anything I have to say has already been…
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What I Read In March
March was a hugely productive reading month for me. I finished nine books (one of them an audiobook) and mostly enjoyed the things I read, though there really wasn’t that ‘killer’ book that knocked my reading socks off. A bunch of decent reads is much better than a run of stinkers, though, so I’m not…
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Recent Arrivals
I am having a devil of a time writing about books these days. As soon as I sit down at the computer to write about a book I’ve finished my mouth goes dry and my mind goes blank. Is there such a thing as blogging anxiety? I can’t seem to find a way around this,…
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The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
Have you heard of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence? It is a fairly new award (started in 2012) for fiction and nonfiction that is given out every June by the American Library Association. The award is chosen by a group of library professionals. The committee’s chairman is Nancy Pearl, the only librarian who has…
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Elizabeth Bowen
“In these surrounding little streets, lit up like aquariums and tonight anonymous, saunterers passed me in vague shoals”. – from A Time In Rome “The cautious steps of women when something has happened came downstairs, sending vibrations up the spine of the house.” – from The House in Paris “It came to be rumoured that everybody…
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Sunday Bulletin 1/19
Happy Sunday! How has your weekend been? I’m enjoying the third day of my four day weekend. I had Friday off for working last Sunday and tomorrow is MLK Day and the library is closed so I was lucky enough to get four days off in a row. It always feels like a miracle to…
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On My Holds List
There is a bit of a slump in December in the publishing world, but January will see the arrival of some exciting books that I am eagerly awaiting. I’m finding that December is a good month for reading classics or old favorites, but once January comes I will jump on the contemporary bandwagon and start…
A Certain Fondness 